"I can't keep accompanying you to look for Shang Yang forever."
"You don't have to forever..."
Qiu Shui Yi Ren instinctively argued back.
Just a few more times would be enough...
Xiao Xiao gave a slight shake of his head.
"The bond between humans and demons is always a mysterious thing."
"If it wants you to see it, it'll appear right in front of you even if you don't look for it."
"You've been looking for it for a long time."
Xiao Xiao stated the facts. "It's actually been near you."
"But... you never found it."
Both girls understood what Xiao Xiao was getting at.
Qiu Shui Yi Ren's lips had gone a little pale. "It... doesn't want to see me?"
The girl was deeply hurt.
She had wanted to see it so badly.
She had spent so much time and effort.
Even after injuring the foot she treasured almost as much as her life, she hadn't given up searching.
That was because she treasured her feet for dancing.
Dance was everything to her.
She wanted to see that dance again, the one that had moved her so deeply.
Her longing for it was so intense.
"Qiu Shui..."
The girl looked at Qiu Shui Yi Ren with concern.
Master Xiao had been far too blunt.
But then she remembered that phone call...
The girl pressed a hand to her forehead. She'd known even then that Master Xiao was such a direct person.
"It's not that it doesn't want to see you."
Qiu Shui Yi Ren froze.
The girl blinked.
Was Master Xiao changing his tune to comfort Qiu Shui because she was upset?
"But it doesn't want to see you, either."
The girl: ...
She'd been wrong.
Master Xiao's words would've been better left unsaid.
"So I